by Maeve Brennan. she’s an Irish journalist who wrote for the New Yorker and is remembered for her contributions to the "Talk of the Town" section 1954–1981. she’s a subtly iconic, stoic diva; she sees everything and only those who need see her do so. she is not a wallflower, but rather and expert in selective camouflage, allowing her to make sketches out of words that capture the essence of the city through the eyes of a longtime-resident-but-permanently-foreign Irishwoman in New York.
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It is one of those reads that no synopsis of mine can encompass the multitudes hidden within those pages. It is a great comfort if you’re feeling lonely or particularly ‘nuts’ because no one depicts the gnarly & honest nature of internal “madness“ like Woolf. She writes from raw experience—and she’s not trying to teach you anything either. Another thing she does like no one else is demand the readers attention on the overlooked. She follows this modernist/mystic tradition that the mundane & sublime are more alike than we think, if we are truly conscious.
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this fabulous biography about the queen of cool expands on ideas she presented in “Where I Was From” and really fleshes out the life of one of our greatest authors.
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Virginia Woolf said that this is one of the few novels written for grown-ups and, in 800 pages, this book tells you how to "quit your young lives and minds after being long in the company of them" to live a life of generosity and community. George Eliot (Mary Evans) has a great sense of humor about Victorian social mores; her prose is as vicious as it is beautiful and penetrating. My high school English teacher gave a beautiful speech about this book, her favorite. : )
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and u’ll meet a bunch of cool people willing to welcome u into a new culture and eventually u get access to a whole nother world of brainrot and giggles
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my favorite publication it’s just the perfect mix of highbrow and lowbrow every read is delicious i <3 u LARB
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